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E. WHITNEY. COMFORTER.

AP PLICATION FILED MIG I6, 191B.

1 ,849,540, I Patnted Aug. 10, 1920.

]annlla Wl-Lneg gnvenl'oz mAN-orLLAjwHrrNny,or,noncrinsrnn,"'ivrAssAcHusnfnTs f Application mea Augier, 1e,isisffsef'ialfno. amare@ To all whom it may concern Be itknownthatLFnANoILLA `a citizen of the United States, and .afresi" dentof Dorchester, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts,kyhave'invented f certain new and useful Improvements in Comforters, ofwhich the following is' a specification. Y f t n r.lhis inventionrelates to bed comforters or coverlets, and an object of the inventionis to provide a comforter including a layer of paper between twoVrelatively thin layers of fabric and to construct the comforter in dsuch manner as to eliminate the lnconveniences contingent with theordinary or formerly known paper blankets or comforters.

It is well known, that paper is a heat nonconductor and when used withLrelatively light fabric, forms a warm comforter, which is light inweight and does not cause fatigue, to theperson or persons sleepingbeneath the same, by reason of its weight,"

however, paper prevents proper respiration of a persons body, and alsowhen used in continuous sheet in a comforter will become worn and torn,upon excessive folding and it is an object of this invention to providea comforter which will overcome the. abovey objections, by providing aplurality of strips of paper which extend longitudinally of thecomforter and have their facing edges spaced, from each other, to permitairv passage through the cloth between the re-v spective strips of paperand which *also fenables the comforter to adapt itself to the shape ofthe person sleeping beneath the same, allowing the said personfto movewithout causing any 'considerable noise ork rattling of the paper.

Other objects of the invention will ap-i pear in the following detaileddescription, taken in connection with the accompanying drawing, forminga part of this specification, and in which drawing:

Figure 1 is a plan of the comforter hav` ing parts broken away.

Fig. 2 is a section on the line 2 2 of Fig. l.

Fig. 1.

Referring more particularly to the draw.- ing, 1 generically'indicatesthe, comforter which is composed of Ythree layersname1y` an upper layer2 of fabric, an intermediate V*ness-.of thefcomfo'rter. d

Theffintermediate" layer -3 'of paper, lis

of the body of the sleeper.

, Changes in 'details may be;

y,SpecificationoifV Lctterslatent. 'y `10, v

i fabric. x The"fabrc and tare preft erablyconstructed of somelight'artistic or pretty fabric, so as tofaddtogthe attractive-, t Y t,

formed' of kaxplurality of separate stripsr 5, i

which extend longitudinally f of the comforter, throughoutfits entirelength, and have theirtfacing. edgesspacedfas shown at 6, soy asto'permit the passage ofair through the comforter to insure vthe4 properrespiration The edges yof the comfo a sultable binder stripl orstrips '7which are jfolded overthegedgesof the layers 2, Sand' 14:;andlhave theiredges" folded back upon themselves as shown lat"8 in Fig. 53 of the rterare bound by sar drawing. These foldedk edges of the 'edging strip Vorstrips 7 are stitchedto the layers 2,

upony themselvesl as shown at 1l. These binder strips-,10 extend overthe yspaces 6 offpaper andthe upper and under layers 3 75, t c 3 and 4'of the comforter by the ordinary type of stitching as indicated at'9.VBinder strips k10 extend longitudinally o f the com?y forter, and they`have their edges'bent back y8() between the various strips 5 of paperand `v and 4 yof fabric,"forming meansto securely d connect the edges ofthe'strips 5 of paper to the upper and under sheets of fabric'. The

jbinder strips 7 and 10 may be of suitable color corresponding to thecolorings of the t fabric strips so as to" cause thel entire -comr c,

",forter to please the esthetic sense yof the user.

` 'It isjto be understood that the paper of f Vwhichfthestrips 5 aremade, is preferably to l,be made of "tough non-crinkling v paper fromthe Spirit 0f the inventiornf n i f "1,00

having suiicient calender tofmake itnon-,y ,n

a succession of elon-` verselyacross thebody of the comforter and i y tY f having theedges thereof spacedapart,`a Fig. 3 is a section onV theline 3-3 of 1 layer' of fabric placed beneath said succes` i sion ofpaper strips andbeing continuous tween theedges of saidpaper strips,aseo-k ond piece 'of fabric placed in common over thesuccession ofpaperr strips and passing Y across the spaces left between suchI strips,

said paper strips adapted to exclude the free passage of air except atthe spaces, rein-- forcing strips secured to the fabric andv paperstrips and bridging the spaces between said paper strips, and areinforcement for` the edgesof the comforter secured alike to the fabricand paperrstgrips for securing the same in assembled relation.

2. A comforter'composed of a succession ofrectangular elongated paperstrips disposed transversely of the `body of the comforter and havingthe adjacent edges thereof spaced-aparma piece of fabric'ofvsubstantiallygthe size ofthe comforter body placed beneath `saidpaperstrips and extending across the :papers therebetween, a similarvpiece of ilexible fabric also of substantially the size of the body ofthe comforter placed above said paper strips and also extending acrossthe spaces therebetween, transversely extending fabric binder stripsextending over the top piece of fabric and bridging the spaces betweensaid paper strips, said binder strips having the edgesV fthereof turnedbeneath'lthe Y body portions of the binder strips, lines of stitchinggoing through said-paper strips, pieces of fabric and ybinder strips atthe doubled-over ledges thereof, and a'binding placed labout the edgesof the comforter body and ybeing secured to the paper strips .and piecesof fabric.

' Y FRANCIL'LA VHITNEY. In the presence of* l HERBERT N. HANsoN. A

